Re: Subtle qmail bug? (was Re: Handling an MX record of 0.0.0.0 or 127.0.0.1)

[Peter van Dijk]

On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 09:16:54AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Thu, 25 Jan 2001, Markus Stumpf wrote:
> 
> > If AOL or hotmail would decide to change their MX records to your mailserver
> > this will for sure also cause you problems.
> 
> Actually, Qmail works fine as an incoming MX for Hotmail.com.
> mail.hotmail.com, one of Hotmail's incoming mx machines, runs Qmail. [1]
[snip]
> [1] Qmail's fingerprint is that it accepts the
>     MAIL FROM: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> in the SMTP session being shortened
>     to MAIL <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

The mail.hotmail.com that I just telnetted to on port 25 did not
except this shortened version. It was also completely unsimilar to
qmail-smtpd.

Greetz, Peter.